R3DF Dashboard Language Switcher

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Directory searches this plugin turns up in, and which way each one is moving. WordPress.org publishes no history of search positions, so this starts the day we first tracked a keyword and never backfills.

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1 search this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 0 listed. 1 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 5 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.

Directory rank

Ranked about #11,300 to #12,900, alongside the other plugins at 200+ installs. Plugins with the same install count swap places between wp.org requests, so this is where most of them sit. Checked monthly, last on 1 Nov 2026.

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

Crossed into this band 13 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.

1. ★★★★★ Softscale

   7.9y ago

   The switcher doesnot change the wordpress language !!

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2. ★★★★★ carlos_wp

   9.5y ago

   I previously used a plugin called “English WordPress Admin” to be able to use english on my dashboard without changing my site’s language. This plugin always worked in a somehow erratic way, but recently for some reason it stopped working at all. Luckily I found this one. Seeing it hasn’t been updated in 2 years, I feared it wouldn’t work either… but it does work and it does so flawlessly. In fact, it even shows the top toolbar in english (the customise/stats/etc. that appear when seeing the blog as admin). It has some extra options that I don’t really need. It does what I need, and I’m really grateful for it because I don’t understand WordPress options in other languages, but I must keep the blog in the users’ language. Thanks!!! This topic was modified 9 years, 2 months ago by carlos_wp.

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3. ★★★★★ VipoxOfni

   10.1y ago

   thank you best plugin for multinetwork wordpress

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4. ★★★★★ Peter Lemessanyi

   10.6y ago

   It was not updated for over a year, but it still works flawlessly (tested with CZECH, ENGLISH, SLOVAK). However the plugin itself has a typo in one freaking UI element it has, makes me question it a little.

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5. ★★★★★ bg17aw

   10.9y ago

   It did the job, just wished the author would be more responsive in the support forums. Keep up the good work!

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6. ★★★★★ enquirer32

   11.0y ago

   Sometimes it is necessary to have the backend translated but not the posts etc – this does the job and in a simple way which doesn’t appear to break other plugins. However, I have taken off a star for the following: * Dashboard ‘langauge’ in the toolbar has a typo – should read ‘language’ * Can’t see the point if ‘Dashboard Language’ isn’t itself translated into the language that is selected. Just having it in French doesn’t really cut it. A couple more because there are issues…

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7. ★★★★★ MSA Vietnam

   11.3y ago

   This is debug: Notice: Undefined index: vi in .../wp-content/plugins/r3df-dashboard-language-switcher/r3df-dashboard-language-switcher.php on line 476 It works fine but the name in Vietnamese language (Installed) does not show and instead by -n.a- Can some one help to fix it???

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8. ★★★★★ Justin Wasilenko

   11.3y ago

   Have it working in 4.2.2. Hope development keeps up. Can’t believe this isn’t built in to WordPress. Allows users to change the Dashboard language to their preference.

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Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2025-10-20 300+ → 200+ down after 1 days in tier
2. 2025-10-19 200+ → 300+ up after 1 days in tier
3. 2025-10-18 300+ → 200+ down after 369 days in tier
4. 2024-10-14 400+ → 300+ down after 2 days in tier
5. 2024-10-12 300+ → 400+ up after 1 days in tier
6. 2024-10-11 400+ → 300+ down after 28 days in tier
7. 2024-09-13 300+ → 400+ up after 1 days in tier
8. 2024-09-12 400+ → 300+ down after 260 days in tier

Competes with

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R3DF Dashboard Language Switcher: 200+ active installs, 4.1★ (9 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-11-01. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/r3df-dashboard-language-switcher